Clay Day at the Folk Art Center

Sunday

Celebrate Clay Day at the Blue Ridge Parkway’s Folk Art Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. This free event features craft demonstrations and hands-on activities for children and adults.

Celebrate Clay Day at the Blue Ridge Parkway’s Folk Art Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. This free event features craft demonstrations and hands-on activities for children and adults.Clay Day has been a favorite happening at the Blue Ridge Parkway’s Folk Art Center for more than 20 years. Members of the Southern Highland Craft Guild demonstrate throwing on the potter’s wheel, hand building and surface design on clay, among other techniques. A highlight of the day is the Make and Take Raku Firing. Buy a $10 pot, glaze it and watch as expert potters raku fire it for you. Raku is a ceramic firing process that uses fire and smoke to create unique patterns and designs. Guild members Steven Forbes-deSoule, Kim Dryden and Nancy Darrell will help with this activity.Jan Morris and Sandra Rowland will host a children’s table where kids will can play with clay and make something to take home. Potters Lee Davis and Lynn Jenkins will demonstrate wheel throwing while Ann Gleason will share her hand-building skills. Other Southern Highland Craft Guild members who will share their techniques include: Becky and Steve Lloyd (sgraffito pottery), Nancy Jacobsohn (clay sculpture), Marcia Bugg (wheel throwing), Karen Newgard (sgraffito pottery), and Lynn Jenkins (wheel throwing). Clay for demonstrations and activities is generously donated by Highwater Clays of Asheville. While at the Folk Art Center, visitors can visit Allanstand Craft Shop, the Eastern National bookstore and Blue Ridge Parkway information desk, as well as three exhibition galleries. Outside the Folk Art Center, there are hiking trails, picnic tables, grassy areas for a picnic and plenty of free parking.For information, call 298-7928 or visit www.craftguild.org.

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